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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from... →
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite... →
The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of... →
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and... →
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the... →
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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